Today we mark a sad anniversary. It's thirty years since the
Bradford City fire disaster in which 56 fans lost their lives. They
went to a football match to celebrate their team's promotion, and
never came home.
The events of that day are etched in our national memory and, as
so often, radio captured the raw emotion of the moment so much more
powerfully than mundane pictures.
They also highlight something about radio that is too often forgotten in our industry today. Beyond the brands, and the promotions, and the personalities radio has a unique ability to bring people together and to communicate better than the echo chambers and troll-infested swamps of what we now call "social media".
This post explores some of those attributes.
